The BackTracker History Show

Season: 3 Episode: 27

Imagine waking up on an operating table and not knowing what happened. Then you start remembering bits and pieces of events when you realise you’re not supposed to be where you are. Here’s the peculiar story of Ewen MacDonald. 

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

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SOURCES

The Chronicle

National Library of Medicine

Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 09 June 1752

Sykes Local Records

Tyne & Wear Archives

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Season: 3 Episode: 26

Rolls Royce has always been one of the prestigious cars to own and part of it's image in tied up in it's iconic emblem seem on the bonnet of it's cars; The Spirit of Ecstasy, the sculpture of a woman leaning forwards with her arms outstretched behind and above her. Billowing cloth runs from her arms to her back, resembling wings.

The story behind that sculpture contains everything a feature film needs, including a woman who wins the heart of a married man, a society scandal and a war atrocity. Hear more about her story in this fascinating episode.

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to Teepublic.com, you’ll find lots of things to choose from.

So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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Season: 3 Episode: 25

One of the most sensational murder cases in the history of Bristol, Tennessee was the Killing Of Lillie Davis in East Hill Cemetery in 1907.

Ack Hale of Bristol was convicted of murdering Miss Davis and was sentenced to life in the state penitentiary.

Hale claimed the Davis girl shot herself with his revolver after having repeatedly threatened the end her life but the story starts many months before with the death of Lillie's brother.

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

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So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

The Journal & Tribune (Knoxville, Tennessee) 30 Mar 1907 Saturday

Nashville Banner. 2nd April 1907 Tuesday

The Washington Times 31st May 1907 Friday

The Baltimore Sun 25th September 1907 Wednesday

The Tennessean 21 December 1908 Monday

Nashville Banner 23 December 1908 Wednesday

Chatanooga Daily Times 29th September 1907 Sunday

Bristol Herald Courier 5 Jan 1947 [4]

Bristol Herald Courier 29 March 1959

The Journal & Tribune (Knoxville, Tennessee) 2 Aug 1914

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Season: 3 Episode: 24

In 1948, Mrs Nan Evans sat in her little study, with it's picture lined walls. She was holding a big brown family book on her lap.

"I don't really know how valuable the papers are. Some of the letters are probably too personal to be of any historical value to the state, but some are generally interesting. "

She was talking about a bundle of around 300 letters written by her grandfather, Bloomington's Civil war soldier, Brig. Gen William W Orme, to his wife in Bloomington, his law partner, Leonard Swett and to Judge David Davis

Find out more about those letters as well as Mrs Evans famous ancestors!

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to Teepublic.com, you’ll find lots of things to choose from.

So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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Season: 3 Episode: 23

What most people don't know is that one of the most enduring legends of the Wild West was born in Frampton Cotterell just north of Bristol? The famous ten gallon hat was invented in the old cow town in Gloucestershire and has become an icon of a genre.

Find out more about this history as well as a bit more about one of it's most famous wearer's, Tom Mix, the original Cowboy Hero.

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to Teepublic.com, you’ll find lots of things to choose from.

So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

Yorkshire Evening Post - Saturday 22 October 1938

Dundee Courier - Monday 14 October 1940

Christy's London

South Gloucestershire Council

Tom Mix Museum

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Season: 3 Episode: 22

It was the summer of 1979 and with the Yorkshire Ripper hunting the red light districts, prostitutes across the country were living in fear.

Then came the news that Bristol had been dreading.

Workmen had found the mutilated body buried under a pile of sand on a St Paul’s building site just off Backfield.

It turned out to be that of 32-year-old Wendy Jenkins.

It didn’t take long for Bristol police to call in their counterparts from the Northern city - after other victims had been similarly mutilated by the serial killer, later discovered to be Peter Sutcliffe, who had already killed 11 sex workers at this point.

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to Teepublic.com, you’ll find lots of things to choose from.

So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

CONTACT ME

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Facebook: @BackTrackerUK

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SOURCES

Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 30 August 1979

Avon & Somerset Police

https://www.execulink.com/~kbrannen/

North Yorks Enquirer

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Season: 3 Episode: 21

More than 70 years ago the manager of a Bristol cinema was gunned down while those at the picture house continued, unaware, watching a movie.

The killer of Robert Parrington Jackson has never been brought to justice in what is the city's oldest cold case still being investigated.

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to Teepublic.com, you’ll find lots of things to choose from.

So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=664

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 03 June 1946

Gloucestershire Echo - Saturday 01 June 1946

Ancestry.Com

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Season: 3 Episode: 20

The Queen's first jubilee year, in 1977, was celebrated with street parties across the country. The Platinum Jubilee celebrations marking the Queen's 70 years on the throne are the first of their kind - aside from Victoria, no other Queen or King of Great Britain has even reigned for 60 years.

This episode tells you more about the coronation of the Queen, which happened the following year instead of dwelling on the death of the Queen's father.

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to Teepublic.com, you’ll find lots of things to choose from.

So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

Letters & Papers Henry VIII, vol. 8, (1885), no. 989, the King's Gestes (advance plan) 5 July 1535; correspondence of Cromwell & his servants at Thornbury, vol. 9 (1886), nos. 114, 155, 124, 157.

BBC

The Royal Family

National Geographic

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Season: 3 Episode: 19

It started just like any other on Cherry tree House Farm in Lower Mynde, St Briavel's but it would end with several wounded and one dead. What exactly happened to turn 21 year old Joe Webb into a man intent on killing as many as he could? Listen to the eyewitness account by Richard Kear aged 13 to find out more.

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to Teepublic.com, you’ll find lots of things to choose from.

So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

CONTACT ME

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SOURCES

Gloucestershire Chronicle - Saturday 14 January 1860

Bridgwater Mercury - Wednesday 11 April 1860

Gloucestershire, England, Prison Records, 1728-1914

Ancestry

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Season: 3 Episode: 18

On the afternoon of Tuesday March 12, 1872, a labourer was rowing home to Hunters Hill along the Parramatta River when he smelled something disgusting as he approached Kissing Point.

As he drew closer, he saw a man’s decomposing body bobbing in the water. This was John Bridger, who had been a Wardroom steward on H.M.S Rosario but had wanted to start a new life in Australia as what was then called a “new chum”. But this New Chum’s new life had been ruthlessly cut short. Find out about this terrible crime and the one that followed.

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

Some more great news for you, if you were interested in buying merchandise featuring the show’s logo, then pop over to Teepublic.com, you’ll find lots of things to choose from.

So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

CONTACT ME

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Facebook: @BackTrackerUK

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SOURCES

Western Daily Press - Friday 24 May 1872

The Sydney Morning Herald - 26th March 1872

Ancestry.com

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Intro music by The Model Folk 

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